Our All-Time Favorite Episodes of Cold Call
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Cold Call is celebrating 200 episodes with a special five-part series during the week of April 24, 2023. Each day that week, Cold Call will release a new episode. To kick off the week-long celebration, the show’s producers have each picked their three favorite episodes from the archives for listeners to revisit.

Host Brian Kenny recommends:

• Can Gimlet Turn a Podcast Network into a Disruptive Platform?) with professors John Deighton and Jeffrey Rayport

• Employee Performance vs. Company Values: A Manager’s Dilemma) with former Dean Nitin Nohria

• Global Ocean Trust: Protecting the Blue Planet in New Ways) with professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter and protagonist Torsten Thiele

Show producer Robin Passias recommends:

• The Delicious History of Hershey Chocolate) with professor Nancy Koehn

• Is Happiness at Work Really Attainable?) with professor Francesca Gino and protagonist Simón Cohen

• Procter & Gamble’s Lean Innovation Transformation) with assistant professor Emily Truelove

Audio Engineer Craig McDonald recommends:

• Baseball’s Billy Beane Shows Companies the Power of Data) with Dean Srikant Datar

• How Wegmans Became a Leader in Improving Food Safety) with professor emeritus Ray Goldberg

• A Lesson from Google: Can AI Bias Be Monitored Internally?) with professor Tsedal Neeley

Cases discussed in these episodes are available online:

• Hershey)

• Happiness at Work)

• Procter & Gamble)

• Gimlet)

• Rob Parson at Morgan Stanley)

• Global Ocean Trust)

• Billy Beane)

• Wegmans)

• Google)